Chinese snap up 40 per cent of prime homes
Non-UK citizens have bought almost eight out of ten luxury new-build homes sold in central London in the past two…
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Some houses (and clients) you fall in love with
‘You know, darling, she’s got that quality, she just lifts a room when she walks into it.’ I knew what…
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See inside the £5.25m One Hyde Park flat which has been repossessed
When you hear a house has been repossessed, London’s most expensive luxury development isn’t the first place you’d think of.…
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See inside the ’5.25m One Hyde Park flat which has been repossessed
When you hear a house has been repossessed, London’s most expensive luxury development isn’t the first place you’d think of…
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Back to business as unusual
And so we’re back: la rentrée is in full flow, computers are whirring, distracting apps on our devices are deactivated,…
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Mansion tax will have to start at £1.25m, capturing 140,000 homes, to raise promised amount
The Knight Frank report, entitled Taxing High Value Homes, shows that a mansion tax on homes worth £2 million or…
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Farmland starts to hit Mayfair prices
The report, from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, has found that since 2004 farmland has risen to around £7,441…
ByWhen a super-basement turns out to be a super-pain
When is enough enough? The recent reports that a hedge funder is spending £4 million building a subterranean complex in…
ByThe solution to chilly English country houses
‘A Norwegian recently told me he had never felt cold in his life until he came to live in a…
ByWhat’s Behind an Increase in Mortgage Lending?
Having operated at greatly reduced levels both in terms of aggregate volume and value since the global crash of 2007,…
ByProspects for the UK Housing Market in 2013
2012 was a tough year for the UK housing market and even the prime sector was negatively affected by a…
ByLoans from the Wealthy Could Kickstart Homebuilding
If the government want more houses built but banks aren’t lending enough money, where can housebuilders turn? Mezzanine financing from…
ByWhy Are So Many Chinese HNWs Moving to the UK?
Occidentally on Purpose The UK is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of HNWs making the move from Eastern…
ByIs the Global Property Market on the Rebound at Last?
Bouncy Castles Is the global property market on the rebound at last? Possibly, says Ross Clark — though it was…
ByWhy It’s Still a Good Idea to Invest in Agriculture
Back in the spring I wrote about the investment qualities of the UK agricultural sector and its viability as an…
ByWhy the Mortgage Market Review is Good News for HNWs and Entrepreneurs
Robin Hood was famous for robbing the rich to give to the poor and – given some of the reaction…
ByAre Brits Finally Falling Out of Love with Period Properties?
In With the Nouveau Ross Clark on the relative decline in the value of period properties and the resurgence of…
ByChesterton Humberts: London property bucks downward trend
A little over halfway through the year and we are not in the position we expected to be in this…
ByPrime London Residential Market Remains Resilient in the Face of Recession
AT A TIME when most economies around the world are either slowing down or in recession, one segment of the…
ByWhy the Olympics Won’t Raise Property Prices
False Start If you build it, they will come — and then they will go. Ross Clark on the peculiar…
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